room size command

[Anonymous]

i got most of my setting back from reset I was forced to do by autocad  due to crashing when it would open,  but I found one command ONLY my computer out of the 4 had so I'm assuming it was something custom. 

I could type  "RS"  (room size) .. click where i wanted text.  then  corner on each size and it would give me that room size.

since reset that command does not work, any idea on how to get back ? or Maybe name of file it was in ?  I do have zip file of my back up even though I can use it since it makes my Autocad crazy when I try and reinstall it.

Thank you again for all your help

Tim

[dbroad]

Roomsize is not an ACA command as far as I know.  It sounds like there is some customization going on at your site. If you did not write the command, then it sounds like it to contact your IT department.  The skinny is:  Find out where the command's program is stored and add that to your trusted places on your folder options.  Also, add the command to your startup suite.

[Anonymous]

any idea what file would have been edit ?  the old IT is not longer with us  so i cant ask him

[dbroad]

No. But, frankly I don't know why such a command would be required or helpful if you are using ACA. Use spaces and room tags.  If you are not using ACA features, you should be posting in the AutoCAD forum.

[Victoria.Studley]

Hi @Anonymous,

Could you attach the ZIP file to a follow up post here? I'll be happy to take a look at it to see if we can salvage the custom command aliases for you, so that you might reverse engineer it so that you can recreate it from scratch.

If one or more of these posts helped answer your question, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

[Anonymous]

when it gets to layer that is what makes my ACA crash

[gotphish001 · Accepted solution]

Was it this lisp? (DEFUN C:RD() (SETQ P1(GETPOINT "\n PICK IST CORNER :") P2(GETPOINT "\n PICK OPPSITE CORNER:") DI(DISTANCE P1 P2) ANG(ANGLE P1 P2) P3(POLAR P1 ANG (/ DI 2)) CAL(SIN ANG) FI(* CAL DI) CA(ABS FI) RT(RTOS CA 4 ) CCAL(COS ANG) CFI(* CCAL DI) CCA(ABS CFI) CRT(RTOS CCA 4) FI(STRCAT CRT "X" RT) ) (COMMAND "TEXT" "J" "MC" P3 9 0 FI "") )

[Anonymous]

yes that looks like it ..

how and where do i find that to add it back ?  

[pendean]

May I ask why you are not using the spaces and room tags already in the program?
Or are you not using the ARCH AutoCAD fully or as ARCH and we need to get your post moved to the plain-AutoCAD forum?

[gotphish001]

I found it in an old forum on here I think just by googling. Funny is I think Dbroad actually commented in the few page thread that I found it. I'm not sure how you make it a lisp file. I've only either copy and pasted them in to command line like that one or downloaded an already lisp file extension that I loaded with app loader.

[Anonymous]

I am using ACA   this command was easy when I'm making brochures

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Windows Notepad will let you create an empty LSP extension file, copy/paste the code into it. See attached.

Autoloading LISP files is explained here https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCAD-Customization...

[Victoria.Studley]

Hi @Anonymous,

I wasn't able to recover anything related to your room size tool from the custom settings.

Have you tried the LISP recommendations that @pendean and @gotphish001 provided? Did they work for you?

If so, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.